Machine for balling yarn



(No Model.)

F. A. CLARK.

MACHINE FOR BALLING YARN.

Patented Feb. 16, 1886.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANK ALBERT CLARK, OF LAWRENCE, MASSACHUSETTS.

MACHINE FOR BALLING YARN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 336,389, dated February 16, 1886.

Application filed July 13, 1885. Serial No. 171,472.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, FRANK ALBERT CLARK, of Lawrence, in the county of Essex, of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Machinery for Balling Yarn Preparatory to being Dyed; and I do hereby declare the same to be described in the following specification and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which-- Figure 1 is a top view, and Fig. 2 a side ele vation,of machinery containing my invention, the nature of which is defined in the claim hereinafter presented. Fig. 3 is a Vertical section of the vertical standard and its adj ustable yarnguides, to be explained.

In such drawings, A represents a common warper-frame, of which a and b are the reeds, having extended through them from the creel a series, B, of warp-yarns, such yarns passing from the front reed, b, over a guide-roller, c. From the roller 0 the yarns converge toward and are run through a tubular guide, 0, provided with a tubular shank, d, projecting down from it. A rod, 6, inserted within a vertical standard, f, and adjustable lengthwise therein, and held to the standard by a clamp-screw, g, screwed into it, extends upward from the standard within and is fixed firmly to another tubular guide, D, from which another stand ard, f, projects upward into and is fastened to the tubular shank d. Thus it will be seen that above the standard f are two tubular guides, from which two sets of arms, aflextend and converge toward and serve to support the bearings 032' ofthe wheel E, grooved in and around its periphery,and arranged with the said guides in manner as represented. The yarns from the tubular guide G extend partly around the grooved periphery of the wheel E and through the guide D, and thence to and through another tubular guide, F, provided with mechanism for imparting to it a reciprocating traverse motion. From the guide F the yarns, drawn together, pass to a beam, G, situated above and between two cylinders, H and I,

arranged and having bearings in a frame, K,

placed in advance of the warper-frame. Each of the journals Z Z of the beam G extends between a pair of vertical guides, at m, projecting upward from the said frame K. On each No model.)

of said journals is a bearing-block, n, having resting on its upper end ahook, 0, from whose shank a line, p, extends to and around guidepulleys q and r, such line having a weight or weights, 8, fixed to it, and with the line and hook to operate to draw the winding-beam G downward toward the two cylinders, on which the mass of yarn about the said beam rests while the yarn is being wound around such beam. Gears t t, fixed on the shafts of the two cylinders, engage with an intervening gear, u, fixed on a shaft, 1;, which, by means of a train of gears, w, w, and y, engages with the driving-shaft z of the warper. From such shaft, while in revolution, rotary motion will be imparted to the two cylinders H and I, to cause them to revolve the winding-beam with the ball or mass of yarn thereon. One of the gears t engages with another gear, a, that engages with a pinion, b, on the shaft ofa cylinder, c, which, arranged as shown, has two spiral grooves in it from end to end, one of which crosses the other, and both meet at their next adjacent ends, so as to cause, while the cylinder 0 is being revolved, a projection or fork extending into one of its grooves from the supporter of the guide F to be moved lengthwise of the cylinder, first in one direction and next in the opposite one, in a manner to cause the yarns to be wound on the winding-beam as it may be revolving, and drawing them through the reeds of the warper and also through the tubular guides O and D. The guide F is fixed on a supporter or tube, (1, and adapted to slide on a stationary rod, e, lengthwise thereof, there being extended from such supporter and to revolve thereon a furcated finger, which enters one of the spiral grooves of the cylinder 0, such devices for obtaining areciprocating traverse of the guide being wellknown and common to yarn-balling machines, as well as to others.

The guides (l and D and the wheel E may be simultaneously adjusted in altitude with reference to the roller 0 and the guide F, which may be accomplished on loosening the clampscrew 9 and moving such guides G and D and wheel E to the proper position for the yarns, in passing to the upper of the two guides O and D, to be drawn and come together to the best advantage.

I elaim-- The combination, with the beam G, tubular guide F, Warper-frame A, and the mechanism for revolving the Winding-beam G and 5 imparting a reciprocating traverse to the yarnguide F thereof, of the two tubular guides O and D and the grooved wheel E in advance thereof, provided with mechanism for adjusting them vertically, the warp-yarns being led from the warper to and through the upper :0 guide, and thence partly around the wheel and to and through the lower of such guides, all being substantially as set forth.

FRANK ALBERT CLARK.

WVitnesses:

R. H. EDDY, Emqnsr B. PRATT. 

